This field is pretty terrible you know [laughs]. It's the combination of people thinking they're so smart and objective, and that combination just really gets to me, like, it's this combination. Regressive is the right word. —Timnit Gebru Our Data Bodies (ODB) is excited to present a...
[Cover photo credit: Mir Suhail ] Can you tell me about the oral history project at Roosevelt island- how it got started, what are the desired outcomes? So in response to all kinds like a racist debate on an online parent network, I did a public screening...
[Cover photo credit of J. Khadijah Abdurahman by Nkozi Tiewul found on @/ Webeimagining ] J. Khadijah Abdurahman shares her personal experiences with Administration of Children Services (ACS) in New York City and the critical work she does around archiving our own stories around power and...
By Seeta Peña Gangadharan Speaking to computer scientists at an academic workshop on machine learning, Seeta Peña Gangadharan challenges researchers to think about the problem of disappearing people and history into mathematical equations. Math is deeply political. Yet computer scientists tend to talk about the real...
By Tawana Petty In 1985 my father died of AIDS. I was nine years old and it was nine days after my ninth birthday. Although a devastating loss for me, it would be years before I would learn the truth about why my dad died, what...
In 2019, the city of Detroit caught the national spotlight with its efforts to resist facial recognition technology (FRT). The implementation of this technology was through an initiative called Project Green Light, a public-private partnership led by the Detroit Police Department. The project seeks to...
Our Data Bodies was happy and grateful to be represented in the first Making A Feminist Internet convening held on the African continent at the end of October this year! The convening was hosted by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and took place just...
Kim M Reynolds spoke with Tawana Petty to learn more about the anti-surveillance work going on in Detroit, which is currently one of the national spotlights for resistance against facial recognition technology. Can you briefly introduce yourself and the work you do? My name is Tawana Petty,...
By Kim M Reynolds As of May 31st of 2019, a new policy was implemented by the State Department requiring all visa applicants to the U.S. to submit five years of all social media history. While there has been long standing surveillance of online activity by...
By Seda Gürses, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Suresh Venkatasubramanian In this post, Seeta Peña Gangadharan joins forces with Seda Gürses and Suresh Venkatasubramanian to briefly canvas research and works that challenge studies of fairness, accountability, and transparency in statistical and automated decision systems. FAT* stands for...
